(Composed 2001)
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Five years from
now: CUUPS I see us having
15 members who have joined both National CUUPS and our Church. In 2000, we had
four people who belonged to both. We will become known
as a place to come for handfastings, child quickenings, memorials, and
celebrations of life's passages. We may become involved in some religious
discrimination battles and child custody disputes. Our Annual
Witches Ball will have grown in fame.
We will continue holding one Open Ritual each month and rotate its
leadership. These will attract about 100. The Thursday evening Study Group will
continue, but it's numbers will stay below 30 because of room size. We will be
spinning off other meetings and private rituals into the community. We will offer
CUUPS workshops at pagan festivals as well as at SUUSI and SWIM. Occasionally, we will send books to prison
inmates. CUUPS will remain
a small part, less than 25%, of the church membership, calendar, and outbound
publicity. Five years from
now: The Labyrinth In 2001, we will complete our outdoor
labyrinth at the north front corner of our building. We will include a welcoming sign, explaining the origins of this
meditation tool and its use. At first,
our members will be the ones who will walk the labyrinth. One person will get really excited about it
and travel to San Francisco to take the labyrinth certification course. The low
maintenance design we will choose will keep the Buildings & Grounds
Committee happy. Future building expansions will be out the rear of the church
building. We will use the
labyrinth for retreats. Our Buddhists, Christians, and Generic UUs will find
meaning here. Other groups will
discover this and pay to reserve it.
Our listing on the National Labyrinth Website will bring us visitors
from many paths. Inclusion of the labyrinth on our church website will make us
all the more interesting to church shoppers. People will find
us because of our labyrinth and some of them will stay. --Kip Barkley
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